Level 5 Lesson 23 / it seems like … / I assume … / -(으)려나 보다

안녕하세요!! In this lesson, we are looking at how to use the structure “-(으)려나 보다”. It is a way of expressing your assumption about a future action that you “assume” someone is going to take or something that you “assume” will happen. Are you ready? Have fun!

You can download both the PDF lesson notes and the MP3 audio track for this lesson below, and if you want to learn with our various textbooks and workbooks, you can get them on our online bookstore at MyKoreanStore.com. If you have any questions about this lesson, please leave us comments below!

First of all, congratulations to the TTMIK team, for all your hard work. Found out your website yesterday and been reading/ listening to some of your lessons, since then.

Can you please tell me how many lessons will have Level 5?

Kyeong-eun Choi, as I red, you’re taking Spanish lessons (or at least you were, don’t know if you gave up :)), Portuguese’s not that different. So if you ever want to learn Portuguese, I can give you some tips also.

Have TTMIK ever think in expand to other countries, for example “Talk to Me in Japanese/ Chinese”. I think this teaching method has a good learning curve, by doing in another countries, you could build a nice language learning platform.

Best Regards!

Adel Zaidi

It would be amazing to have aTalk to me in Japanese, because the “vj,dj” is so fluent in japanese, and i’m learning both languages, but i haven’t found any resource like TTMIK for japanese.

Seokjin Jin

Thanks for your idea! Yeah, I hope that we will make more educational site for other languages in the near future. 🙂

Adel Zaidi

You’re welcome i really love the way you teach, i wanna learn more languages thanks to that, i need a Talk to me in Japanese, and a Talk to me in Mandarin. And good luck for the rest.

Hello!!! 안녕하세요! I’m Aigul! 아이굴입니다! 🙂 I’m from Kazakhstan and so glad to study with you! It’s my first time leaving a comment but I’m here from the very first lesson! 🙂 Thanks a lot for such great lessons! 정말 제미있어요! 감사합니다!!! 🙂

Kimi

안녕 TTMIK! 네 첫번 코맨트예요. 래선들 다들었어요. =) 정말 도움이되요!

네 예문: 이수업은 재미있으려나 봐요. (This class/course looks like it will be fun.)

I may have made some mistakes because I don’t write in Korean often. ^^ 매일 한국어 공부 할게요! 감사합니다~

넌 다시 많이 디저트 먹으려나 봐요. It looks like you are going to eat a lot of desserts again.

(이 문장이 맞아요?) ✌️ 감사합니다!

Winnie Zambo

1.오늘 런던에 비가 오려나 봐요

2.곧 극장에 이 영화를 볼 수 있으려 나 봐요

3.지금 많이 배고파서, 밥을 먹으러 이 식당라도 가려나 봐요

Seokjin Jin

곧 극장에 이 영화를 볼 수 있으려 나 봐요 > 곧 극장에서 이 영화를 볼 수 있으려나 봐요.

You did a great job!

Winnie Zambo

Thanks for your corrections!

Francesco Colléter

결국 영와를 공개을 려나봐요.

It looks like they’ll eventually release the movie.

Eman

친구가 여기 못 왔어요. 풀장에 가려나 봐요.

Katherine Traylor

그 학생이 오늘 안 오려나 봐요.

JooyeonPark

perfect! 🙂

Jeeztiff

당신의 말은 너무 심하서 그쪽은 화가 나려 봐요.

Fabiola Ricca

I can’t download the pdf file & the mp3. Is there some problems?

samah

what if i want to say .. 그 사람 다시 일어나려나 봐요… ^^

Derek Stone

It looks like that person is about to wake up again?

samah

Hh i don’t know what i meant in this sentence it 6 month ago. But i think i meant .. it look like this person is aboit to get up after falling .. (keep going no matter what happened )it’s deep meaning hhhh

samah

Hhh it looks like that …

Derek Stone

I have a question. In the PDF, you stated that this structure can’t be used with descriptive verbs, but then it was used with 춥다. Can you explain why this is possible?

Here are some examples: 1. 그가 피자를 다 먹으려나 봐요. It looks like he will eat the whole pizza. 2. 그 사람이 소리 지르려나 봐요. It looks like that person is about to shout. 3. 그 고양이가 우유를 마시려나 봐요. It looks like that cat is about to drink the milk. 4. 그 사람이 자전거를 훔치려나 봐서 우리가 막아야 돼요! It looks like that person is about to steal a bicycle, so we have to stop him!

samah

It exception /we can us 으려나 보다 with description verbs ONLY when we talk about the weather .. 날씨만 예외에요.. ^^ they mention it in the audio lesson ^^

Sanjeeda Masroor

1) I guess I won’t be able to do it. – 제가 못 하려나 봐요

2) I guess i’m going to wear that green dress. – 그 초롴 드래스가 입으려나 봐요

3) I guess there’s going to be a lot of snow. – 눈이 많으려나 봐요

4) I think i’m going to take a day off this saturday. – 이 토요일에 제가 쇠려나 봐요

5) I guess I’m going to meet my family tomorrow. – 내일은 제 가족을 만나려나 봐요

6) It seems i’m going to watch a drama tomorrow. – 내일 드라마가 보려나 봐요

Please correct me if there are any mistakes, 감사합니다!! 🙂

Dania Freih

곧 가려나 보는데, 어디로 갈까요? 제 친구가 다 사려나 봐요. 그 사람이랑 현우 씨랑 싸우려나 봐요.

TinaMusicFairy

also example 5 is exception because it’s not written as ‘춥으려나 봐 요’ it’s ‘추우려나 봐요’ ^ ^

Matt

고양이가 일어나려나 봐요. = It looks like the cat is going to wake up. 나없이 퇴근하려나 봐요. = It seems like everyone is going to leave work without me. 큰 정공을 열심히 되려나 봐요. = It looks like they are going to work hard to become successful.

감사합니다 for the lesson.

Amina :)

예쁘지려나 봐요 I guess she’ll become prettier. 그 여자를 다 주려나 봐요 It looks like he will give that woman everything 잘 자려아 봐요 It seems like he slept well 그 사람이 한국어 잘 하니까 TTMIK 웹사이트에서 공부하려나 봐 Since that person’s Korean is good, I guess he studied at TTMIK.